{"id":37446,"date":"2020-11-13T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=37446"},"modified":"2020-08-24T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:34:05","slug":"book-club-night-a-very-large-expanse-of-sea-by-tahereh-mafi-on-november-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/book-club-night-a-very-large-expanse-of-sea-by-tahereh-mafi-on-november-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club @ Night &#8211; &#8216;A Very Large Expanse of Sea&#8217; by Tahereh Mafi on November 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1281526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37449 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/very-large-expanse-of-sea.jpg?resize=264%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s time for a new book club! On the second Wednesday of the month through December 2020, Book Club @ Night is meeting at 6:30pm to talk about young adult books!<\/p>\n<p>The November meeting will not take place on November 11 as the library is closed on that day in observance of Veterans Day. The November program will meet instead on November 18.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, November 18th, Book Club @ Night will be discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1281526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>A Very Large Expanse of Sea <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by Tahereh Mafi.\u00a0Information about how to join is below.<\/p>\n<p>Using GoTo Meeting, patrons will be able to meet to talk about a new book with one of our librarians. Book club books available at the Eastern Avenue Library.<\/p>\n<p>Curious what\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1281526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>A Very Large Expanse of Sea<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher:<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s 2002, a year after 9\/11. It&#8217;s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who&#8217;s tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She&#8217;s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments&#8211;even the physical violence&#8211;she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she&#8217;s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. But then she meets Ocean James. He&#8217;s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. It terrifies her&#8211;they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds&#8211;and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that she&#8217;s not sure she&#8217;ll ever be able to let it down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1337489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OverDrive eBook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1347740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD Audiobook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Book Club @ Night<br \/>\nWed, Nov 18, 2020 6:30 PM &#8211; 7:30 PM (CST)<\/p>\n<p>Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/global.gotomeeting.com\/join\/188604317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/global.gotomeeting.com\/join\/188604317<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also dial in using your phone.<br \/>\nUnited States: +1 (408) 650-3123<\/p>\n<p>Access Code: 188-604-317<\/p>\n<p>New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/global.gotomeeting.com\/install\/188604317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/global.gotomeeting.com\/install\/188604317<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a new book club! On the second Wednesday of the month through December 2020, Book Club @ Night is meeting at 6:30pm to talk about young adult books! The November meeting will not take place on November 11 as the library is closed on that day in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/book-club-night-a-very-large-expanse-of-sea-by-tahereh-mafi-on-november-18\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,7,1,8],"tags":[977,5315,402,1872,5372,248,5117,4601,408,3435,5261,847],"class_list":["post-37446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-library-classes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-book-club","tag-book-club-night","tag-fiction","tag-first-love","tag-iranian-americans","tag-love","tag-muslim","tag-prejudice","tag-romance","tag-teenagers","tag-virtual-book-club","tag-young-adult"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-9JY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37451,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37446\/revisions\/37451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}